Why, thank you! I'd never imagined I could boast such a talented dev among my patrons... *blush*Well, would you look at that! A fellow developer in my thread, and one I'm a patron of to boot. *Tips hat respectfully*
I think F95zone hides itself when redirecting to Patreon, so I can't really see when people come to my page from here, but I do believe that the majority of my patrons found Long Live the Princess on this site first and then became patrons after. It's a bit of a give and take relationship, but considering how weak porn games are in the market right now compared to other genres, I'll take it.
Btw, I haven't find out via Patreon redirects: rather via "mutual servers" on discord and/or via "spontaneous coming-out" in both comments or chats.
As for the rest, I second each and every word regarding the trade off we have to pay: rising and shining in this line of work can be harder than anywhere else, and for reasons you don't really want to get me started on...